Berlin — Sights
Where the trains run all night over the scar of the Wall.
- Brandenburg Gate — Berlin's front door, walled off for 28 years
- Reichstag Dome — Free spiral walk up a glass dome above parliament
- Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe — A field of 2,711 grey concrete slabs you walk through
- Museum Island — Five museums and Nefertiti; the Pergamon is still shut
- Berlin Cathedral — Climb to a 50 m dome walkway over Museum Island
- East Side Gallery — 1.3 km of real Wall covered in over 100 murals
- Berlin Wall Memorial (Bernauer Straße) — The Wall as it really was, death strip and watchtower included
- Checkpoint Charlie — The famous Cold War crossing; a quick photo stop
- Topography of Terror — Free Nazi-history centre on the Gestapo HQ site
- Berlin TV Tower — The silver ball you see everywhere; the highest view in town
- Charlottenburg Palace — Berlin's largest surviving royal palace and gardens
- Gendarmenmarkt — Twin domes and a concert hall: Berlin's prettiest square
- Tiergarten & Victory Column — A gilded goddess over the park, 285 steps up
- Kreuzberg & Markthalle Neun — A 19th-century market hall that fills up for Street Food Thursday
- Sanssouci Palace, Potsdam — Frederick the Great's carefree summer palace above vine terraces
- Mauerpark Flea Market — Berlin's big Sunday flea market, with open-air karaoke
- Jewish Museum Berlin — The zigzag building is the exhibit
- Tempelhofer Feld — A runway-and-meadow park in the middle of town
- Oberbaum Bridge — A red-brick bridge with the U1 train on top
- Neue Nationalgalerie — Mies van der Rohe's glass box on a stone plinth
- Hackesche Höfe — Eight tiled Art Nouveau courtyards in a row
- Teufelsberg — A Cold War spy station with graffiti domes
- Stasi Museum — The secret-police boss’s office, left as it was
- Museum für Naturkunde — A 13-metre dinosaur filling the main hall
- Humboldt Forum — A rebuilt palace filled with world cultures